Category Archives: Far Out

Robert Rapier. Oct 27, 2016. Ethanol From Carbon Dioxide Is Still A Losing Proposition. energytrendinsider.com If I told you that I had created a process to extract pure gold from seawater, you might deem it an amazing accomplishment. If I … Continue reading →

Ugo Bardi. October 22, 2016. The mother of all promises and how science failed to maintain it. Cassandra’s Legacy. The latest scientific claim that went viral on the web is about a catalyst able to turn CO2 directly into ethanol. … Continue reading →

Go to Mars? Really? We tried already did, and it didn’t work out. Remember the $250 million 3.14 acre sealed Biosphere 2 complex near Tucson, Arizona back? It was built to show how colonists could survive on Mars and other … Continue reading →

It must take more energy to break the bonds of water, extract CO2, and recombine into usable fuel than you will ever get out of fuel so produced. We’ve known for a long time how to split hydrogen from water. … Continue reading →

Sounds great — but will it scale up? That’s been the downfall of many projects that work small scale, like biofuels from algae & cellulosic, etc. And as I say at the top of many of these posts, this is … Continue reading →